News from EUROCONTROL’s aviation safety knowledge base SKYbrary On 9 Sep 2010 the UK AAIB published the final report on the serious incident that occurred on 27 July 2009 over London. A Cessna 525 departing from London City came into close proximity on an almost reciprocal heading with a Boeing 777 descending to land at… Continue reading Serious loss of separation in the vicinity of London City July 2009 – Final report now available
Tag: Cessna
Volcanic ash and jet engines do not mix
Although the following pictures have appeared on several sites already, we thought it would be interesting to provide them also on Roger-Wilco. They show clearly what happens when a jet engine flies through a volcanic ash cloud. The plane is a Cessna Citation that flew out of Germany and they escaped because the other engine… Continue reading Volcanic ash and jet engines do not mix
Aircraft based tools in the fight against runway incursions
Aircraft-based airport surface traffic indications and alerting systems This is an edited version of the presentation made at the recent ESAVS 2010 conference by Doug Arbuckle of the FAA. Coauthors of the paper were David E. Gray of FAA, Peter Moertl of Mitre Corporation and Jim Duke of SAIC. You can download the original text of… Continue reading Aircraft based tools in the fight against runway incursions
Same time, same place, same level…21
Flying to freedom This chapter had been written well before the fall of the Berlin wall and the famous opening of the border by Hungary, allowing thousands of East Germans to flee to the West. It is a nice quirk of history that the place where this story took place is just a few miles… Continue reading Same time, same place, same level…21
Same time, same place, same level…17
Navigation, the art of getting lost – Part 2 A taxiway will do… A few years later, however, we got our share of uninvited visitors, too. This time it was a Sunday and the observation terrace was crowded by people, some of them waiting for flights due in later, others just there to watch for… Continue reading Same time, same place, same level…17
Ferry flight fun
Pilots and controllers come in all shapes and sizes. I have seen quite a few of them who started as controllers than became pilots and many of those who started their carrier as pilots but for some reason ended up in a tower or in front of the radar scope. But you hardly see people… Continue reading Ferry flight fun